DR. MONTGOMERY GIVEN BIG HONOR State Librarian Will Be Chosen President of Amer ican Library Association Dr. Thomas \\\ \ //J Lynch Montgom-| s\\\ Sk Wy er.v. State Librar-: XV\V\fe sTi< ian anments—Heavy payments of money from licenses are being made at the State Treas ury by county treasurer. The in come from this source will run high during June. To Make Inquiry—lt is probable that the Public Service Commission ■will authorize an engineering in quiry into the natural gas situation in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Com missioner Rilling will have a sitting in Oil City in July. Dinner on Tuesday—The House Appropriations Committee will have its final session Monday and will have the biennial dinner on Tuesday. State officials and legislative leaders will be guests. Mny to Take Bonds.—ln the event that the Burke hill increasing salar ies on Capitol Hill takes place there will be many subscriptions for bonds among folks at the Capitol. State Treasurer Kephart has been asked to act for those who desire to sub scribe. Prompt Action—Governor Brum baugh's approval of the Woodward j bill carrying $295,000 to pay salar- | ies of attaches of the State govern- j ment between June 1 and approval j of the general appropriation bill was j followed by prompt payment of! checks. The Capitol payday would j have been June 15 if money had i been available and State Treasurer j Kephart sent out the checks as soon j as he was notified of approval. Bureau Powers Given. Deputy j Attorney General Collins' to-day gave an opinion to the Department of La-1 bor and Industry that the employ- : ment bureau must determine wheth er a dispute, strike or lockout exists and that a statement regarding such j trouble must be exhibited until the j dispute or strike is terminated. The j question of termination is also one i for the bureau. F. A. JOHVSTO\, WELL KNOWN HKHK, DIES !\ LANCASTER F. A. Johnston, aged 52. proprietor I of the hotel at Fifth and State streets ! for many years, died yesterday morn- j Ing at his home, in Lancaster, from I heart trouble. He had a wide circle I of friends in this city. Mr. Johnston sold his hotel here and removed to J.ancaster several years ago. He was a turnkey in the Lancaster prison. 432 MARKET STREET SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 22 PORGIES - TROUT I I |C SEA BASS I 1111 CROKERS * w ID TILE FISH v 1 * STEAK lb. IOC HALIBUT Ofk STEAK lb. Li\J C LEAN BOILING 1 BEEF lb. lOC I STEWING 1 C _ LAMB lb. • 1 OC STEWING 1 VEAL lb. 1 X)C FANCY CHUCK STEAK lb. FRESH SAUSAGE 00_ LINKS lb. LINCOLN BUTTERINE dj 1 OQ 5 POUNDS..-. 56 MARKETS IN PRINCIPAL CITIES OF 14 STATES MAIN OFFICE PACKING PLANTS CHICAGO. ILL. I'KOKIA, ILL. THURSDAY EVENING, NEWS OF S FUND CLIMBS UP SLOWLY TO MARK Amount Posted This Morning Totals $14,515; Teams Are Working Hard / Steelton's Total Mounts to $16,485 With the reports of the teams soliciting Red Cross contributions made at the noon luncheon to day the Steelton amount totaled $16,485. The reports of the teams are as follows: M. A. Cumbler, $1,759: T. T. McEntce. $1,479; L. E. McGinnes, $1,576: J. A. Me- Curdy, $1,186: T. J. Nelly. $2,485. ' J Steelton is doing her share toward the national Red Cross fund. Including the reports of yesterday's work made at the noon luncheon, the total Is now $14,515. This in cludes many subscriptions from the | business men and residents, while i provisions were made to-day by W. H. Nell, chairman of the finance ■ committee, whereby every man can give as large a contribution as he is able. Headquarters were established In many sections of the town and rounding districts where small con tributions can be made. The list of stores at which sub scriptions for the Red Cross will be received follows: B. F. McNear, Jr.. Main and Conestoga streets. Reehling Brothers, 305 Myers street. Frank Wieger, 32 7 North Front street. Zeigler's drug store, Conestoga and Front streets. Porr's drug store, Front and Pine streets. Martz's drug store, Front and Pine streets. McCurdy's drug store, 9 North Front street. Steelton Store Company, Front and Locust streets. Steelton National Bank, Steelton Trust Company, Front and Locust streets. Peoples Bank, Front street. Peter's drug store, 189 South Front st reet. Prowell's drug store, 385 South Front street. Highspire—McDanel's drug store and Gruber's restaurant. Oberlin—Hackman's store and Stengle's store. Rutherford —Kramer's store. Enhaut—Paull's store and Kline's restaurant. Bressler—McNear's store. The team reports made yesterday follow: M. A. Cumbler. $566, total $856; L. E. McGinnes, $l4B, total $1,284; Dr. J. A. McCurdy. $74, total $819: T. J. Nelley, $540. total $2,003. MRS. HFSSIE MARSHAL!/ [)IKS| FUXKHAI, TOMonnow Mrs. Bessie Dennee Marshall, aged 51, widow of the late Rev. W. H. Marshall, died yesterday afternoon at her hotue, 629 Boas street. She is sur vived by her father, A. W. Dennee. a former city assessor; three sons. Dr. A. Leslie Marshall, physician; W. E. Marshall, pharmacist, and Dr. Forrest Marshall, druggist, all of this city, and a foster daughter. Miss Catherine Marshall, a student at Centra High. Funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon, at - o'clock, at the Wesley Union A. M. E. Zion Church, of which she was a member. The Rev. W. A. Ray, pastor, will officiate. Mrs. Marshall was identified with Queen Esther Chapter of Eastern Star: worthy recorder and a chapter member of Naomi Household of Ruth, No. 4 959, G. U. O. O. F.. and a charter member of the Past Most Noble Gov ernors' Council. Merchants Must Remove All Cases on Sidewalks That the newly organized police department means to enforce all borough ordinances is seen in the action of Chief Gardner to-day. The chief said that notice will be served on all merchants to remove showcases in front of their business places after 6 o'clock at night. The chief said this is enforcing the ordi nance providing for the removal ol' obstructions on sidewalks. The ordinance allows that one ! fifth of the sidewalk on the inside j and outside can be used by mer -1 chants between sunrise and sunset; j after that they must remove all ob structions. The ordinance will go i into effect Saturday night. DESPONDENT ON ACCOUNT OF HEALTH, COMMITS SUICIDE Despondent because of 111 health, i EberhaAl Cook, aged 55, committed i suicide this morning by hanging i himself at his home, 489 Mohn street. He was found shortly before 4 o'clock. He is survived by his wife, two daughters in Philadelphia, | and two sons at home. Funeral serv- I ices will be held Saturday morning. DIES AT HOSPITAL I F. Abregan Trasec, aged 45, died : at the Harrisburg Hospital this morning. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, at the German Catholic Church. Bur ial will be made in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery. NURSES ASSOCIATION MEETS A meeting of the Visiting Nurses Association of the Borough Civic Club was held in the Associated Charities Rooms in the Trust Com pany Building this morning. Routine business was transacted. : MIDDLETOWN Houser Is in Ireland and Will Return Soon Frank Houser, of Susquehanna street, received word yesterday from the War Department at Washington, D. C„ that his son, Jacob Houser, who was on the Southland when tor pedoed by a U-boat, was safe in Ire land, and would be home shortly. The Junior C. E. Society of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church picnicked at the Emaus Orphan Lawn Tuesday afternoon. The executive committee of the Red Cross Society, have started a fund to raise about $5,000 for Mid dletown and surrounding towns. The fund was started by the A. S. Kreider Shoe Company with $75. Joseph Snavely, of York, Pa., is visiting here. Mrs. Frank Conebran entertained the social circle at her home in Emaus street this afternoon. Winfield Sides, who had been ■teaching at Porto Rico, or the past ten months arrived home yesterday. Victor Klahr, who had been on a motorcycle trip with Adam Kain for the past year, arrived home yester day from Los Angeles, Cal. He and. his companion made a coast to coast trip on the motorcycle and at various times wrote home some very inter esting letters on their trip. Kain will return home in the near future. Mrs. Charles Numbers and son, Robert, returned to their home at Philadelphia to-day, after visiting here several weeks. Yesterday morning eight colored men who had been working at Cone wago arrived in town and were met by High Constable Charles Houser and Constable Harry Kurtz. They were wanted for leaving Conewago without paying their board bills. They were given a hearing before Squire T. C. Smith. R. N. Jaggard, who sent word - here to be on the lookout for them, agreed to pay the costs of sl2 and they all returned with him to Conewago. The Mothers' Congress Circle will "give a moving picture play in the Realty Theater this evening. "A, Tale of Two Cities" will be the swb ject, the proceeds for the benefit of the Red Cross fund. Mrs. Henry Smyser and daughter, of York, visited in town for the past several days. Mr. apd Mrs. William Geisinger, of Minneapolis, Minn., are visiting in town. Frank Hammond and John Daugherty left yesterday for Colum bus. Ohio, where they have enlisted in the ambulance corps. Equal Pay For Equal Work, as to Sex, Urged | By Associated Press New York, June 21. Equal pay for equal work without discrimination as to sex is urged, as a war measure, in a bulletin on "Labor Laws in War Time," issued here to-day by the American Association for Labor Leg islation. As men leave industrial pursuits for the front and women take their places in rapidly increasing numbers, the bulletin says the need for protective measures becomes more pressing. "Ac cepted wage standards, built up through years of struggle, should not be undermined under cover of 'war necessity,'" the bulletin insists, add ing: "Vigilance, too, must be exercised to protect women entering indus tries from bad surroundings, injurious tasks and exploitation—physical and moral." American Socialists Will Not Support Country at War, Says Peace Delegate By Associated Press Stockholm, June 21.—Dr. Max Goldfarb, one of the American So cialists who have arrived here, de clares in a report submitted to the Dutch-Scandinavian committee that the American Socialist party is strict ly neutral. His report says: "Although the United States is al ready in the war, I can say that the position of the American Socialist party as a whole is strictly neutral and thoroughly international." The report calls for the creation of a permanent Socialist committee, whose sole purpose would be to work for a permanent peace. A second recommendation deals with the com position of the congress which will be called upon to settle the Issues of the present 'struggle and demands a "congress of representatives of the nations and not of the governments." STATE BUREAU MAJtKETS BILL PASSED BY SENATE Among Senate bills passed finally in the House to-day was the Sproul bill establishing a state bureau of markets to be part of the Depart ment of Agriculture and designed to put farmers in direct touch with consumers. Other Senate bills passed were: For a commission to revise penal laws. Appropriating SIOO,OOO for fire men's relief organizations. Appropriating $194,500 to Farview Htute Institution and $107,000 to Sbamokln State Hospital. BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M. B. A. Passes Resolutions on Supt. Creighton's Death At a meeting of local assembly No. 4, Mutual Beneficial Association of Pennsylvania Railroad employes, this week, resolutions were unanimously passed on the death of General Super intendent George W. Creighton, of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A copy of the resolutions was sent to the family of the late superintendent. It follows: "Whereas, the Great and Supreme Ruler of the Universe has in His infi nite wisdom removed from among us one of our worthy and esteemed fel low laborers, G. W. Creighton. genera? superintendent, Kastern Pennsylvania Division, Pennsylvania Railroad: and. "Whereas, the long and intimate relation with him in the faithful dis charge of his duties in this associa tion makes it eminently befitting that we record our appreciation of him, therefore. Resolved, that the wisdom and abil ity wheih he lias exercised in the aid of our organization by his service, contribution and counsel will be held In grateful remembrance; "Resolved, that the sudden removal of such a life from among our midst leaves a vacancy and a shadow that will be deeply realized by all of the members and friends of this organ ization, and will prove a serious loss to the community and the public; "Resolved, that with deep sympathy with bereaved relations of the red ' vio " ~ navy, mustard and checks; w let —all sizes. II j I If SI " S 18,35 ' 40,42 ' ' Rack No. 4 Consists o£ 111 Jf Rack No. 2 Consists of Jfc*££*& \\J r. Tl 14 Suits priced from • tarla—sizes 38. 38. 40, 42 _ Y ffltssssfs *IA needle embroidery, beau- , black or Cope—net and hand embroidery trimmed priced tuul designs. up to s3o.oo—ie. is, 38. 40, 44. -___________ _______—_——————__ Extraordinary Values in M'omen's and Misses 9 aa *llll9 Uf KIOTO aa Summer Wash Frocks ZZ THAIS VVAIdIo l| use several of these dresses. Sizes 16 to 44. V....1 J tto *{ki EntranCe Astrich's Old Store EntrMCe Now on N ° W ° n Fourth ( BUSY) M A Fourth Street §|P MARKETSTS. Street CAR SHORTAGE .IS DECREASING I Shippers Carry Out Sugges tions; Big Help to Rail roads; Some Figures r The shortage of freight cars In the United States was reduced during the month of May from 14 8,627 to 105,127 cars—almost one-third. This marked reduction in one month, following four months of rapid increase, is attributed to the prompt response on the part of both shippers and railroads to the specific suggestions which have been made by the railroads' war board as to how to secure more effective uses of existing freight equipment. Some .of those suggestions are: Timely Suggestions Load cars 10 per cent, in excess of marked capacity; reduce percentage of cars and locomotive under repair; improve methods of tiring locomo tives; defer scrapping light locomo tives; speed up handling of cars in terminals by prompt dispatch of trains; load and unload promptly, and enlist co-operation of shippers as a war measure to secure heavier loading of cars. The progressive improvement in the situation is indicated in that on March 1 reports made by railroads to the American Railway Association showed a, shortage in the entire country of 130,082 freight cars. The shortage grew to 144,797 by April 1, and on May 1, when the railroads' war board was just starting to op erate all the railroads as a conti nental system, with the aim of pro-, ducing a maximum national trans portation efficiency, the shortage had reached 148,627 freight cars. St. John's Day Will Be Observed by Masons Preparations have been made for the celebration of St. John's Day next Monday at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in North street. The serv ice will take place at 8 o'clock in the evening and the following pro gram has been arranged: Organ vol untary, Fred. J. Kramer; opening lodge of Perfection, 14 degree; "America," members; invocation, Harry N. Bassler; vocal duet, Walter IE. Dietrich, John N. Kinnard; ad- I dress, S. J. M. McCarrell, past thrice, potent master; vocal solo. Augustus G. Shantz; passing box of fraternal assistance, "Star-Spangled Banner," members; benedicUon, Thomas Reisch. Fall Primary Changes Go Back to Governor The House passed finally and sent to the Senate the following bills which had been recalled from the Governor: Changing the September primary date from the third Tuesday to the third Wednesday. Authorizing prothonotaries in counties having between 150,000 and 250,000 population to name i deputies. Providing for badges for Spanish and Philippine war veterans. JUNE 21, 1917. GRANT WAGE BONUS New York, June 21. More than 3,000 employes of the Sinclair Oil and Refining Company will be benefited by Again We Lead in Showing What Is Newest This time it's THE MILITAIRE —a distinctive Suit with coat of pronounced military lines, in olive drab KOOL-TEX CLOTH, mili tary button-flap pockets, all 'round belt, pleated back, yoke—bound to appeal to the swagger /hi a ♦ dresser modestly priced Kool Tex and Palm Beach Cloth Suits —ln plain I>aok, belted back and all 'round bolt models, light and dark shades, plain, mixtures aiul plaids, $7.50 14 N. 3rd Street, gorg^rugstore Watson s/soper TTorthy - V^lothes Are You Ready For Bathing? Are you prepared to enjoy the sum- Sato * s s^ mer's greatest Is your bathing \ \ outfit complete? Your That's where we / can serve you. . Our V" Bathing Caps are the Wy "hit" of the town. J / They are so pretty ' — j so prac ti c a I—so stylish and they give \ good service, because ) VV they are made of fine, A*— ' • - live rubber, " to $1.50 Special Diving Caps for Men—Plain and Fancy DRUG STORE Second St. Near Walnut i^ZZZZZZHZZmZZZZ^^^Z!ZZZZZZZZZH^ZZZZZ^ZZZZZZZZZZZZ^ZZZZ!ZZZZI!ZZZZZZZZ3ZZ^ZZZ^ZZZZIZ! a wage bonus of 10 per cent, voted bjf J the directors to those receiving le(t j than $2,500 a year. The order Is t* • fective as of April 1. 9